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Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Different Mechanisms of Censorship
Censoring bodies often have in mind not the people they consider adversaries that they're trying to silence, but their allies. The Inquisition pretty much didn't care very much at all about atheists. They were more concerned with policing what monks are reading and what priests are reading. And this has corollaries elsewhere: China is very aware right now that almost everybody that it's policing is accessing forbidden material.
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